Reasons For The Increase In The Divorce Rate Flashcards

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What have changes in law over the last century have made what easier?

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Divorce easier and cheaper and to get, giving Men and women equal rights in divorce

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Changes in law reflect In what?

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Changing social attitudes and norms, and there Are a number of wider social explanations that must be considered

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What’s a really important explanation for the rising divorce rate?

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The changing role of women

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Around two-thirds of divorce petitions are granted to which gender?

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Women

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What does the act women request more divorces than men suggest?

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That more women than men are unhappy with the state of their marriages and therefore more likely to take the first steps in ending them

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Why are women more unhappy than men?

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Feminists argue that women expectations of life and the quality of their relationship ms have risen during the course of the last century

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What are women less likely to accept?

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The patriarchal nature of marriage and the family, and the traditional housewife-mother role, with the sacrifices of their own leisure activities, careers and indendence this involves

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Did the employment of married women increase or decrease over the last century

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Increase

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What are the two broad groups of reasons for the increase in the divorce rate?

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Changes in the law which have gradually made divorce easier and cheaper to get it
Changes in society which have made divorce a more practical and socially acceptable was of terminating a broken marriage

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